Attack on Titan: Manga Volume 4 Reaction & Review
Added 2023-04-14 17:00:02 +0000 UTC**Headphone Warning**
OH WOW, y'all -- this volume was "Callback Central" with the climax and aftermath of the Trost Battle. But what made it even more of a reaction was how the manga re-organized information from the anime (or rather vice versa)!
There were a lot of twists and turns and many things to think about with this installment and I can't wait to talk with you about it!
Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!
Comments
You're absolutely right. I think the obvious reason Isayama jumped straight into Trost in the manga was because of the desperate fear of being cancelled within your first few chapters like many mangaka do. So Isayama rushing to the big beats of the story so that Eren would have his fake out death in the last chapter of volume 1 ensured the best possibility of keeping readers invested. Especially since his art wasn't the best at the beginning so he really needed to hook the audience based purely off the story. The anime never had this concern so they were able to adapt the events chronologically. Which I think works better from a storytelling perspective, especially for an anime since the Trost arc takes up half of season 1, and without seeing the training flashbacks first, viewers would likely not care for characters like Jean, Sasha and Connie when their lives were repeatedly in danger.
Doccyy
2023-04-14 23:51:31 +0000 UTCI think Isayama was very concerned with getting quickly to the action in the earlier parts of the manga. He famously got rejected hard by Shounen Jump, and while his editor at Kodansha, Kawakubo, saw a lot more potential, the story ended up running in a new spin-off magazine of Shounen Magazine in the very first issue, with no established reader base. It was his one shot at getting a popular series and I think he wanted to quickly get to the part that would hook readers with dramatic cliffhangers and lots of action. There's still a ton of setup happening earlier, but it's mostly in the background while cool stuff happens By the time the anime came out, the series was a pretty huge hit with critics and audiences, so the strategy worked to get it popular and for a much anticipated series, having a few slower moments in hte beginning is less of a risk. In principle, moving those scenes earlier works more smoothly, but I don't think the order in the manga is much worse. AoT is a series often old out of chronological order, and this establishes that quickly, and the setup for the Marco scene is fantastic.
cw
2023-04-14 21:45:57 +0000 UTC
